Public Economics Program Meeting
Amy Finkelstein and Neale Mahoney, Organizers
October 24-25, 2019
Gleacher Center, Room 406, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
| Thursday, October 24 | ||
| 9:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 10:10 am |
Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S. |
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| 11:00 am |
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER Joshua J. Kim, Stanford University Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER Payday Lending, Self Control, and Consumer Protection |
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| 11:50 am | Lunch- Lobby Lounge (Lobby Level) | |
| 1:10 pm |
Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER Ryan J. Shyu, Amazon.com, Inc. Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxation of High Earners: Evidence from California |
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| 2:00 pm |
Juliana Londono-Velez, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Can Wealth Taxation Work in Developing Countries? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia |
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| 2:50 pm | Break | |
| 3:20 pm |
Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER Targeting In-Kind Transfers Through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation |
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| 4:10 pm |
Patrick Bayer, Duke University and NBER Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER Kenneth Whaley, University of South Florida Is Spending on Schools Efficient? A National Study of the Capitalization of School Spending and Local Taxes |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 pm |
Dinner HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen 1800 S. Carpenter Street Chicago, IL |
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| Friday, October 25 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:20 am |
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Benjamin D. Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |
| 10:40 am |
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER Xian Jiang, University of California, Davis Zhao Chen, Fudan University Zhikuo Liu, Fudan University Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behavior: Evidence from China’s VAT Reform |
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| 11:30 am |
Michael Gelman, Claremont McKenna College Shachar Kariv, University of California at Berkeley Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan and NBER Dan Silverman, Amazon, Inc. Rational Illiquidity and the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds |
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| 12:20 pm | Lunch-Lobby Lounge (Lobby Level) and Adjourn | |